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“I was scared at the time nobody was going to believe me. I didn’t want to make a scene. I just wanted to go home,” Taneie, who was an extra on the HBO series, told BuzzFeed News.

“It was the most horrible thing I’ve ever experienced,” said Taneie said, who was 23 when the alleged assault occurred.

The actor told her he and a manager wanted to speak to her, Taneie claimed, but suddenly backed her up against the wall the moment they were alone, groping her breasts and genitalia.

She said Piven only stopped because an assistant director walked by — and then told the person to kick her off the set because she’d come on to him.

Prior to the incident, Taneie had been talking to fellow extra Araceli Giacoman, who said Piven “said something quietly to Anastasia and they walked away, and he took her away.”

When Taneie returned to the greenroom, Giacoman described her as looking “distraught,” “shaken,” and “scared.”

The actress told the Web site she had been nervous about coming forward when the assault happened because she didn’t think anyone would believe her.

But she cited the recent deluge of accusations inside and outside Hollywood as inspiring her to speak out.

“I have kids and I just want one less monster off the street,” she said. “And Harvey Weinstein came to justice, why not Jeremy Piven too?”

Taneie said she’d also felt silenced because of an 180-day sentence she served in 2010 after pleading “no contest” to burglary.

“Because some people have a past, like a criminal record . . . it makes women not want to say anything, even if they did get hurt,” she said. “They don’t want to say anything and then get judged for something that has nothing to do with the situation, and they look at them as liars.”

One woman accused the actor of pinning her down in her Los Angeles living room, while the other said he fought his way on top of her in a New York hotel room and masturbated.

The actor has strongly denied all the wallegations.

“Let me be absolutely clear: This simply did not happen,” he said in a statement through lawyers. “I would never force myself on a woman. I cannot speak as to why a person would create a story like this.”